Very few animals have been successfully cast at Pompeii, and the horse joins a wild boar and a dog (pictured) in getting the same plaster treatment as human victims. This dog was chained to a post in ...

The museum's current exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City, displays resin copies of 19th and 20th century casts of those who perished in the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE.

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The Archaeological Park of Pompeii is a popular attraction for sightseers visiting the Gulf of Naples. I was fortunate to visit myself in 2023 and, like many tourists, was struck by the eerie famed ...

New information from the study of Pompeii plaster casts has challenged previous interpretations . Julia Musto. Friday 08 November 2024 07:23 GMT. Comments. Ancient ceremonial carriage discovered ...

Two of the plaster body casts from the Pompeii archaeological site. Archaeological Park of Pompei. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...

People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE.

Excavations first began to unearth the forgotten city in 1748, but it wasn’t until 1863 that archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli developed a method to make plaster casts of some of the Pompeii victims.

Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who died ...

When those people’s flesh decayed, it left behind bones and body-shaped hollows in the ash. Since 1863, more than 100 casts of Pompeii’s victims have been made by pouring liquid plaster into ...